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Re: Starting an application on login



On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Daniel Lintott wrote:

> It only makes sense to start the application when the user logs in,
> which can be done using the $(HOME)/.config/autostart directory or
> adding an entry using the Startup Applications GUI.

There are additional dirs that the package can install into:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html

> From the packaging perspective, is this something we should do when the
> package is installed... or should it be left to the user to configure
> how they start it?

In general, things in Debian should work when they are installed so I
would say autostart it.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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